From the “People only ever die of COVID” department
Headline: Texas GOP rep Ron Wright, 67, becomes first member of Congress to die from COVID after two-week spell in hospital alongside his wife
Story: He died with COVID. He also had lung cancer, and was recently hospitalized for a week with pneumonia. Maybe COVID did actually kill him, but I’m unconvinced after a local mayor “died of COVID” and stage 4 brain cancer but you had to, like, already know the dude had brain cancer because none of the death stories would mention it.
From the woke department
Headline: Student organizations asking UT to terminate professor who used racially charged acronym in class
Story: A black female professor of “Africana Studies” wrote the title of a Tupac Shakur song on the board.
From the “What an amazing coincidence” department
Headline: Mayor Cooper proposes record-breaking $191 million for funding toward education
Reality: Cooper raised property taxes by 34% during a pandemic with record unemployment without ever even considering cutting back spending. Now that the covid numbers are down and he’s expecting a return to 2019 sales tax revenues, he puts forth the largest spending plan in Nashville’s history,